Line #2 Trivia/ShinMegamiTensei


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2	* There are only five ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' games that allow the player to begin and end the game as a girl. They are ''VideoGame/Persona2: Eternal Punishment'', ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIf'', ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiNINE'', ''Devil Children Red Book'' and the PSP remake of ''VideoGame/Persona3''. Note that only in the first example being female mandatory. In original ''Devil Children Red Book'' being female also mandatory, but UpdatedReRelease merged [[OneGameForThePriceOfTwo Red and Black books]] into one, thus making Mirai only an option.
3	** However, ''VideoGame/Persona1'' and ''VideoGame/Persona2'' assumes that protagonist of ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIf'' was female.
4	** There are also Aigis, who has an additional chapter in ''VideoGame/Persona3 FES'' and [[CuteMonsterGirl Pixie]], who can be unlocked as playable character in Jack Bros.
5	** One can also create a female avatar in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiImagine''.
6	* Curious about why Cerberus's design has only one head? This design choice is a tradition that remained from the [[Literature/DigitalDevilStory original novel]]'s depiction.
7	* CashCowFranchise: The Persona spinoffs, more specifically ''VideoGame/Persona3'', ''VideoGame/Persona4'', and ''VideoGame/Persona5'' have become some of Atlus' most popular properties. They got so popular they even started to drop the "Shin Megami Tensei" label.
8	* CompletelyDifferentTitle: Attempted early on. When the ''Shin Megami Tensei'' games were beginning to be localized to the United States starting with the first ''VideoGame/Persona1'', Atlus [=USA=] attempted to call the series ''[[LiteraryAllusionTitle Revelations]]''. Only [[VideoGame/Persona1 two]] [[VideoGame/LastBible games]] were released under the ''Revelations'' name and was officially dropped with the release of ''VideoGame/Persona2: Eternal Punishment'', and the series officially adopted the ''Shin Megami Tensei'' moniker starting with ''[[VideoGame/DevilChildren Demi Kids: Light Version and Dark Version]]''.
9	* FranchiseKiller: More like Subseries Killer, but ''Ronde'' for the Sega Saturn ended up completely killing off the ''Majin Tensei'' subseries.
10	* FranchiseOwnershipAcquisition: A unique example of his happening to a series in its infancy when it is largely obscure. The 1987 game VideoGame/MegamiTensei'' was made on license from author Aya Nishitani based on his ''Literature/DigitalDevilStory'' series of novels. In 1992, Atlus outright bought the intellectual property itself from Nishitani in order to gain ownership of the franchise, of which has become one of its most prominent and profitable.
11	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: A large portion of the franchise's mobile entries were released for older Japanese smartphones or services that have since been discontinued, making them difficult or even [[MissingEpisode outright impossible]] to acquire these days. G-Mode has started re-releasing them on Platform/NintendoSwitch and Platform/{{Steam}} as part of their G-Mode Archives+ series, but they're [[NoExportForYou Japan-only]] and there are still quite a few missing.
12	* NoExportForYou: A good fraction of the games, especially ones before MediaNotes/TheFifthGenerationOfConsoleVideoGames. This has changed in TheNewTens for North Americans --''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'' was released in North America only two weeks after its Japanese release, ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'' got its NA release two months after Japan's, when many prior localizations would take at least eight months, and ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiV'' even got a simultaneous [[note]] though Japan got the game a day earlier[[/note]] worldwide release, a first for any SMT game, or even Atlus games as a whole. However, Europe still sadly gets the short end of the stick.
13	* {{Portmanteau}}: The skill Luster Candy might sound a bit out there in English, but its kana in Japanese is "Rasuta", a combination of '''Ra'''kukaja, '''Su'''kukaja, and '''Ta'''rukaja. This being the skill that raises all stats, it makes a lot of sense.
14	* RecursiveAdaptation: Aya Nishitani, the author of the original ''Literature/DigitalDevilStory'' novel upon which the first game in the series was based on, would later write a manga inspired by the game series, titled "''Shin Megami Tensei - El Salem''".
15	* SequelFirst: ''Jack Bros.'', an obscure Platform/VirtualBoy ''VideoGame/{{Gauntlet}}'' clone spinoff, was the first game in the series to come to the US with many of the games.
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